ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,261, issued on July 1, was assigned to AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (Atlanta) and AT&T Mobility II LLC (Atlanta).

"Port reconfiguration for passive intermodulation interference mitigation" was invented by Ernest Tsui (Pleasanton, Calif.), Michael Taylor (Cumming, Ga.), Weihua Ye (Chicago), Young Suh (Danville, Calif.), Paul Maxwell (Alamo, Calif.), Guanying Ru (San Ramon, Calif.) and James Hollister (Carnation, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments for port reconfiguration for passive intermodulation interference mitigation are presented herein. A base station device comprises a signal processing component comprising a p...